After his house was destroyed by flash floods in 2020, a grandfather has spoken out about his pain after he lost precious family photos and memorabilia.
Kevin Lorryman, from Snaith, Yorkshire, lost the bungalow her shared with his wife, children and grandchildren after it was destroyed in February 2020 by Storm Ciara.
Tonight’s It Takes A Flood on ITV shows the heartbreaking cost of the flood. He allowed the camera crew to tour his abandoned home, which was virtually unrecognizable after the water reached 9.5 feet.
Kevin Lorryman, a Snaith Yorkshire resident, lost the bungalow he shared with his wife, their children, and grandchildren when it was destroyed by Storm Ciara in February 2020.
Tonight’s ITV program, It Takes A Floor, features his heartbreaking ordeal as he allowed the camera crew to tour the house. The home was unrecognizable after the water rose to 9.5 feet.
In the documentary, the grandfather was overcome with tears as he described how telling his grandchildren about their belongings has been ‘horrible.
He said that he was most affected by the loss of his family’s memories and the children’s toys.
Archive footage showed Kevin’s house with water all the way to its roof.
It’s the shock of seeing your home flood. Kevin explained to cameras, “It’s everything you’ve ever experienced in your life, it had gone.”
In the documentary, the grandfather was overcome with tears as he described how telling his grandchildren about their belongings has been ‘horrible.
Kevin also shared photos on his phone showing the water filling their house. He revealed that he initially thought that it would be only lightly flooded. However, two hours later, the water had filled half the lower level of their house and was still rising.
Pictured: Kevin’s bedroom, after it was destroyed by flood waters. The furniture and toys were all upside down.
“The house was built in 1971 and had never been flooded. [we]He recalled how he never thought about flooding.
It was quiet, secluded and peaceful. We loved it down there, but it was still difficult to walk in the house at the moment.
Kevin also shared photos on his phone showing the water filling their house. He revealed that he initially thought that it would be only lightly flooded. However, two hours later, the water had filled half the lower level of their house and was still rising.
He pointed to a picture of a sofa floating in water and said, “That’s the lounge that were literally just two hours after we thought it was over,”
Kevin then led the filming crew towards a derelict kids’ room, which has since been empty of most its contents.
After 9.5ft of water flooded Kevin’s £200,000 house, all of the furniture piled up to the ceilling, pictured
The master bedroom was also flooded, so the family had no choice but to salvage what they could.
The entire ground floor was flooded with dirty, muddy water. The family had to move to a caravan.
Kevin said, “There’s still things in there now, just looking at Lego on the ground, the surrounding nerf bullets, as soon you in here I don’t want be in here,”
He said, “I’m an engineer, I’m supposedto be big, tough, and I don’t wanna touch anything here, since it’s all memory, there’s one his cars, on and around the room, stickers on the walls, the stars on and off the wall, and the monkey and frogs pictures around the room.”
He said, “That’s what we’ve lost,” and added: “explaining to.” [his grand child]It was absolutely horrible to see all of these things disappear.
Kevin standing in front of the house in 2020. The water level was high enough to reach the roof and solar panels.
Kevin described the painful process involved in going through all of the items that were lost as the family made a claim on their insurance.
He stated that the company that cleaned everything out literally sorted everything down to plates, kettles and children’s toys.
“I think we ended with 1,400 individual articles we basically had to sit down to put a price on,’ he said.
‘And for myself personally it was children’s toys and grandkids toys that got my attention, I will admit, I came in here alone ’cause I didn’t want anyone else to in, and
Kevin’s voice broke at this point in the documentary. He had no choice but to apologize and leave the room to gather his thoughts.
The living-room as it appeared a few days following the flood’s climax.
The kitchen, stuffed with toys for the children that the family tried to salvage after the floods.
Kevin and his family, according to reports, moved to a caravane that they owned while trying to sort out their housing situation.
Two grandparents were among hundreds of homeowners evacuated from 88 submerged properties of Snaith after the February 2020 floods.
The documentary featured multiple accounts of people who lost their homes to floods that struck Britain in 2020 and 2021.
Mick Renilson, whose Hawick, Scottish Borders house was flooded in 2020, said that no one can imagine how it felt to lose your home to floodwaters, unless they have experienced it.
“When I say you can get over it with time, it doesn’t really mean you can get over them.” He said that it’s always there in your mind.
“Every time it rains, you think, “What’s going to happen?” Although I try to suppress my emotions, it’s really hard to keep my emotions in check. It’s kind of killing me,’ he said.
It could make you feel so down that you could even cry. Then you’d say, “Why?” It’s not like it has happened once and it will never happen again’. It’s happened four times,” he stated.
Mick’s house was submerged in floods in 2015, 2016 and twice in the past two years. He described it as feeling like being kicked after you’re already down.
He stated, “We never got the time to recover after the third flood that was caused by the fourth,”
He said, “It’s kind of like taking a punch in a boxing match. Your head feels funny and then you get back up and they hit again.”
It Takes a Flood is available on ITV Hub.